Cannot get past F10 ROM Based Set Up screen.

Have a Compaq presario 3000 notebook. The intro Compaq screen comes up and in the lower left hand corner the F10 Rom Based Set up comes up. Pressing F10 does nothing and cannot do anything else to the computer other than force it to shut down.

Re: Cannot get past F10 ROM Based Set Up screen.

Hitting F10 should take you into the recovery partition. If nothing happens may I suggest to you that your Hard disk has failed. Try your hard disk on another machine to see if you can 'see' anything on it.

Re: Cannot get past F10 ROM Based Set Up screen.

There is no booting from cdrom if it is stuck at the F10 Rom Based Setup and you have not already set up the bios to boot the cdrom first. A bad hard disk will stop the post process in it's tracks right there.

Best to take the hd out, mount w/usb on a server and chkdsk /R. That will tell you the condition of the driver, and perhaps solve the problem.